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rootin' tootin' and START IT ALL OVER

Hello,
I would like to know the exact meaning of this sentence I have read on the Bob Dylan's Chronicles:
'Danny and I would see each other again in ten years and we'd work together once more in a ROOTIN' TOOTIN' way.
We'd make a record and START IT ALL OVER, pick up where we left off.'
Thanks in advance, Jo.
  

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Hi, I would like to know the exact meaning of this sentence I have read on the Bob Dylan's Chronicles: 'Danny and I would see each other again in ten years and we'd work together once more in a ROOTIN' TOOTIN' way. ' ROOTIN' TOOTIN' This is an idiomatic adjectival phrase. It means 'wild, crazy, uninhibited, having a great time'.

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  • Hi, I would like to know the exact meaning of this sentence I have read on the Bob Dylan's Chronicles: 'Danny and I would see each other again in ten years and we'd work together once more in a ROOTIN' TOOTIN' way.
  • ' ROOTIN' TOOTIN' This is an idiomatic adjectival phrase.
  • It means 'wild, crazy, uninhibited, having a great time'.
  • START IT ALL OVER 'To start something all over (again)' means 'to restart at the very beginning'.
  • The phrases START IT ALL OVER and pick up where we left off (meaning 'continue from the point where we stopped') are actually rather contradictory.
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Hi,

I would like to know the exact meaning of this sentence I have read on the Bob Dylan's Chronicles:
'Danny and I would see each other again in ten years and we'd work together once more in a ROOTIN' TOOTIN' way.
We'd make a record and START IT ALL OVER, pick up where we left off.'

ROOTIN' TOOTIN' This is an idiomati
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